Quotes from Julianna Baggott

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.

Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.